Getting raw text content of HTML element with HTML uninterpreted

Question

I have Googled my brains out and can\'t figure out how to make this work. Here is what I\'m trying to do:

HTML:

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Answer 1

I prepared some days ago a bin with some different approaches: http://jsbin.com/urazer/4/edit

My favorite:

var text = "");
var html = text.replace(/[<&>'"]/g, function(c) {
  return "&#" + c.charCodeAt() + ";";
});